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Bennett wallabies - Tasmania Bennett wallabies are a little different from those on the mainland. Largely due to their thick white fur, but also their affinity for poppies.

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Crop circles - Crop circles kept being found in poppy fields, puzzling farmers.

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Lara Giddings - According to the BBC, the Tasmanian attorney general, Lara Giddings said in 2009, "We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

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Water - High wallabies "can become disoriented and lose their ability to find water," said Rohan Kile, the poppy crop supply manager for GSK in 2014, according to NY Times.

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"High as a kite" - "The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Giddings told a parliamentary hearing for the security of poppy crops.

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Tasmania - Half of the world's legal opiates are produced by Tasmanian farms, and the industry is governed by the UN claiming some of the strictest security in the world.

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Thefts - According to ABC, thefts from poppy crops has increased from 516 in the 2015-16 financial year to 12,239 in the 2016-17 financial year.

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Individuals - Tasmania Police Detective Inspector Jason Elmer said, "We believe that these poppies are being taken for the use of the individuals involved", and not organised crime.

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Luckily - More than half of the stolen poppies have been recovered, resulting in the arrest of eight people.

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Pretty, but lethal - Tasmanian poppies are highly toxic if ingested and can even kill, the Chief executive of Poppy Growers Tasmania Keith Rice told the ABC.

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Tea - In Tasmania, three people have died in three years after drinking tea brewed from stolen poppies.

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Consequences - "The consequences can and have been horrific, and it can be a game of Russian roulette with people drinking this substance or putting it into their body," Detective Inspective Elmer said.

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Opioid crisis - In recent years, the opioid crisis in the U.S. has been addressed by imposing stricter rules on the use of prescription opioid-based medicine.

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Drug Enforcement Agency - According to Bloomberg, the volume of legal opioids in the U.S. has dropped by 28% since 2012 following moves by the Drug Enforcement Agency to tighten access.

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Overdoses - This comes from the shocking statistic by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that opioid overdoses kill 91 Americans every day - more accidental deaths than firearms and car accidents combined.

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Prescription - Although fentanyl and heroin are the main drugs used in an opioid overdose, prescription drugs have been a pathway to their use in a majority of cases, according to the Financial Times.

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Availability - Professor Richard Mattick, Australia’s representative on the INCB defends the responsibility of opioid production companies: "the availability is caused by the government’s regulatory approvals, not by supply", according to OZY.

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Opioids to fight opioids - Methadone or buprenorphine is used to wean addicts off of opioid-based medication or illegal drugs as a method to fight the opioid crisis.

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Consume - The U.S. contains 5% of the world’s population, however, consumes an estimated 80% of the world’s opioids, according to Bloomberg.

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Demand - Although there seemed to be a dip in demand due to the opioid crisis in the U.S., 80% of the rest of the world is still in need of access to painkillers, according to the Financial Times.

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ICOS - Jorrit Kamminga of the International Council Of Security and Development's (ICOS) 'Poppy For Medicine' proposal said the World Health Organisation confirmed that 80% of the world is in need of pain-killing medicines.

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Access - "People who rely on prescription opioids often don't have access to alternative measures such as physiotherapy, health and nutrition advice, or mental health care", claimed the same article.

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Commonwealth - An agreement made in 1971 with the Commonwealth of Australia granted TAS farmers a decades-long monopoly on poppy cultivation, meaning they supply half of the worlds global legal quota.

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Alternative - As the opioid crisis has been in the limelight, Tasmanian Alkaloids has decided to turn their attention to alternative options.

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2016 - In 2016, Australian parliament passed a law that permits the manufacture of medicinal cannabis products in Australia.

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Tasmanian Alkaloids - In May, Tasmanian Alkaloids partnered with AusCann Group Holdings Ltd., a medicinal marijuana company from Adelaide, to produce and distribute cannabis products.

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Diverse - "Demand has softened, but Tasmanian Alkaloids is a diverse company that also sells non-controlled finished goods" said Managing Director Doug Blackaby to Bloomberg.

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Melbourne - In 2017, The Monthly reported that a Melbourne company, TPI, had fought for their right to produce legal opiates for distribution.

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Medicinal cannibis - According to Bloomberg, they were recently granted licenses by Australia’s Department of Health for medicinal cannabis cultivation and research.

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